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Thea James is half of the maniacal book review duo behind The Book Smugglers. By day, she does digital operations things over at Penguin Random House. By night, she watches an abundance of horror movies, stays up too late, and voraciously devours ALL THE SFF.

Gage from Pet Semetary is the reason that movie failed for me – not because he was scary. Just the OPPOSITE. He was just so CUTE! The toddler was just too adorable for words so I never focused on how scary he was supposed to be. I kept thinking, “Awwww, look at you with your widdle top hat and scalpel! Who’s the adorable-est movie villain ever? You are! You are!”

jitterbug

January 10, 2009 at 9:06 am

I used to try to visualize a brick wall when I was in trouble for something I did… ^_~ I saw the Village of the Damned when I was young and I’ve never forgotten it!
IMO the scariest child is Sadako, I think. And the twins from The Shining are a very close second. But looking at the pics I wonder about Rhoda from The Bad Seed… I’ve never seen the movie though.

Oh, and congrats for the new website/layout! I liked the old one, but this is every bit as good ^_^

AnimeJune–no way!!! Well, when I saw Pet Sematary, I was only a little older than Gage, and I still remember being scared out of my wits by him. I even remember having a nightmare with him in it, holding a syringe, going “No fair! No fair!” 😯 But he is adorable, that’s for sure.

Jitterbug–Hah! That’s awesome! The good ol’ brick wall trick. Those little kids scare the crap out of me, I must have watched the Carpenter remake at least fifty times when I was younger. And I definitely recommend you give The Bad Seed a watch–Rhoda terrifies me as well.

And thank you for the kind words on our new site!

If I had to pick my favorite scary kid, I’d have to go with…Samara, Regan or Damien. Samara because most recently, The Ring is the best new horror movie in years (yes, I think even better than Ringu–which I did see way back when it first came out in Japan). Damien because he’s the antichrist and that trike scene is so terrifyingly cold-blooded. But ultimately, it’s gotta go to Regan. Demonic possession, all those disgusting, vomit and heart attack inducing scenes…I gotta go with The Exorcist, once again! 😈

azteclady

January 10, 2009 at 11:39 am

Hello, lady Smugglers!

I don’t watch (or read) much horror, but I think that, from the ones I have watched, the girl from The Bad Seed and Henry from The Good Son are more terrifying than any other characters.

Hello azteclady 🙂 The Bad Seed is totally creepy, isn’t it? *shudders* And yes! Macaulay Culkin (I know I spelled that wrong) is freaky in The Good Son…he does his angelic little Kevin McCallister smile and it creeps me out.

In an unrelated note, I love how tiny he and Elijah Wood are in that picture! Awww. Little hobbit.

The twins…the twins!!! Oh god, they terrify me. (In college a group that I was in did a haunted house one year, and a pal of mine and I dressed up like the twins and walked around the hallways saying, “Come play with us…come play with us…” We freaked out a lot of big manly frat boys 🙂 )

Tomas freaked me out too, but nothing in that movie compares to that knocking game she plays by herself with the ghost children. Bwah!

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1 : a book review blog specializing in speculative fiction and popgeekery for all ages since 2008.
2 : a publisher of speculative short fiction and nonfiction since 2014.
3 : 2018 Hugo Nominee for Best Semiprozine
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